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Convergence
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Convergence, Culture, Design, Science
NYT Has First List of the Season
Interesting bits that have caught the eye(s) of the NYT this year include:
Eye-recognition advertising technology… Bicycle Highways… Man-made Trees… Zombie defense strategies… and more.
Not necessarily the most mind-blowing stuff in every case, but many are things that I had not seen in 2009…
A nice opening of the Year End ‘Lists’ season…
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Convergence, Design, Street
That Doggie in the Window
Via Neatorama. Sniff projects a CGI dog in a shop window, interacting with passerby. The dog was created in Blender, the open-source 3D suite which is interesting; been thinking about learning it.
People on the sidewalk are monitored by an IR camera in openFrameworks. In oF each individual person is isolated and assigned a unique id [...] -
Convergence, Culture, Design, Eco
Nuage Vert Installs Emission Awareness
Design team HeHe built on the idea of contextualizing public spaces with Dr.Evil-grade “La-sers…” — a bunch of sites picked up on this already, I’m still recovering from the Holidays. Illuminating the cloud in proportion to the energy use of the city is a great tool to build conservation awareness and engage folks. For other [...]
